Mikhail Druyan

Mikhail Druyan

1911-10-17
88 (2000-07-07)
Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]

Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]

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Once Upon a Time, There Lived a Dog 1982 (7.914)

Based on the Ukrainian folktale, the old dog of a village family is not as keen as he once was, and is sent away after he fails to guard their house during a robbery. In the woods, he meets the wolf he protected his masters against long ago, who decides to pay a favor to get his old enemy's rightful place back in the doghouse.
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Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting 1971 (7.398)

The second of the Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh series. This one had Pooh and Piglet visiting Rabbit for a meal with honey.
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Junior and Karlson 1968 (7)

A Soviet cult cartoon, so untypical for a Western viewer, especially, a little one. A boy named Malysh ("A Little One") suffers from solitude being the youngest of the three children in a Swedish family. The acute sense of solitude makes him desperately want a dog, but before he gets one, he "invents" a friend - the very Karlson who lives upon the roof. So typical for the Russian culture spirit of mischief, which is, actually, never punished, and the notion that relative welfare not necessarily means happiness made the book by Astrid Lindgren and its TV adaptations tremendously popular in the Soviet Union and nowadays Russia and vice versa - somewhat alienated to the Western reader and viewer (see User's comments below). However, both the book and the cartoon are truly universal - entertaining and funny for the children and thought-provoking and somewhat sad for grownups.
Mikhail Druyan

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Nastya 2017

Nastya Sablina is turning sixteen, and, filled with emotion, she begins to reflect on "the most important day of her life."